Infusion

Infusion BBS was a bulletin board system software developed by Skaboy101 (Grant Passmore) across a time period of 1996 - 2000.

It began as a Pipeline hack inspired by Vision/2 before evolving into a fully featured BBS platform in its own right. As development progressed, Passmore incorporated advanced features drawn from legendary BBS software like Oblivion/2 and Iniquity, eventually rewriting so much of the original Pipeline code that Infusion became its own distinct system — while still retaining Vision/2's familiar feel.

Written in Borland Pascal, Infusion gained traction in local BBS scenes and found notable success in Europe, with development continuing on and off into the early 2000s.
Infusion distinguished itself through an emphasis on speed, configurability, and a scene-oriented aesthetic. It boasted what its developers claimed were the fastest communication routines available at the time, with support for up to 128 COM ports and 255 nodes. Both the sysop-facing and user-facing interfaces were fully customizable, and the software offered a rich feature set including online and offline configuration, an extended automated door system, an internal IRC mode (infuIRC), and full lightbar scripting support. The source code was eventually released in 2006 under Demonic Productions, accompanied by a suite of external utilities including an echomail tosser, menu exporter, language compiler, and installer — offering a window into both a functional BBS platform and a piece of underground computing history.